Petersburg, Michigan
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Summerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49270. It stands on Miller Drain. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle. 1,171 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPetersburg grew from 1,146 to 1,171 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,146 | |
| 2020 | 1,171 | +25 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1912 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Petersburg between 2018 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000492 - 2018 |
| 17 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IDA TOWNSHIP VFD 283 - 2020 |
| 17 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 499 - 2020 |
| 24 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 219 - 2020 |
| 6 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 147 - 2020 |
| 6 June 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 308 - 2020 |
| 18 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000346 - 2019 |
| 15 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IDA TOWNSHIP VFD 227 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Petersburg: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petersburg Limestone Exposure | Limestone, General | Prospect | ||
| R. W. Sidley-Conneaut Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersburg in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | $80,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | $35,000 | Trees reported down. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | $10,000 | Several large trees snapped and uprooted. Power lines and poles downed and broken. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | $3,000 | The local newspaper reported a 100-year-old decorative maple down in Petersburg. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | A trained spotter reported tree branches 5 inches in diameter down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | A 15 foot diameter tree was toppled on Dixon Road. |
| November 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Law enforcement reported wires blown down on Morocco Road. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Strong thunderstorm winds snapped two to three inch limbs off of several trees. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petersburg Junction | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Diann | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Dundee | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Rea | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Lulu | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Ida | 7.5 miles | 18 | |
| Saint Anthony | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Ida Center | 8.0 miles | 19 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Petersburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3308106 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634708. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.








